Posted on 11/06/2003 7:31:54 PM PST by republicanwizard
Astounding Triumph of Republicanism.
THE NORTH RISING IN INDIGNATION AT THE MENACES OF THE SOUTH
Abraham Lincoln Probably Elected President by a Majority of the Entire Popular Vote
Forty Thousand Majority for the Republican Ticket in New-York
One Hundred Thousand Majority in Pennsylvania
Seventy Thousand Majority in Massachusetts
Corresponding Gains in the Western and North-Western States
Preponderance of John Bell and Conservatism at the South
Results of the Contest upon Congressional and Local Tickets
The canvass for the Presidency of the United States terminated last evening, in all the States of the Union, under the revised regulation of Congress, passed in 1845, and the result, by the vote of New-York, is placed beyond question at once. It elects ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois, President, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN of Maine, Vice-President of the United States, for four years, from the 4th March next, directly by the People.
The election, so far as the City and State of New-York are concerned, will probably stand, hereafter as one of the most remarkable in the political contests of the country; marked, as it is, by far the heaviest popular vote ever cast in the City, and by the sweeping, and almost uniform, Republican majorities in the country.
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ELECTION DAY IN THE CITY: All Quiet and Orderly At the Polls: Progress of the Voting in the Several Wards: The City After Nightfall: How the News Was Received: Unbounded Enthusiasm of the Republicans and Bell-Everett Headquarters: The Times Office Beseiged: Midnight Display of Wide-Awakes: Bonfires and Illuminations
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If backed up with actions. But there is no evidence at all that Davis did that. Reagan backed up his words with actions by winning the Cold War. Kennedy backed up his words with massive funding for NASA. Bu Davis? He did nothing, nothing at all, to promote the establishment of a supreme court. He was more than happy to allow the senate to violate the constitution and didn't mind at all not having another branch of government to answer to.
Nonsense.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney served on the U.S. Supreme Court until his death, October 12, 1864.
"HILL, WILLIAM PINCKNEY." The Handbook of Texas Online.
HILL, WILLIAM PINCKNEY (?-1870). William Pinckney Hill, Confederate judge, was born in Georgia, the son of John and Sarah (Parham) Hill; his birthdate is not known, but he was somewhat older than his brother, United States senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia, who was born in 1823.
In 1863 and again in 1865 Hill was widely mentioned as a candidate for governor but declined to run. He was considered a principal contender for chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Confederacy, a court debated but never established by the Confederate Congress. In 1866 he was nominated for the Supreme Court of Texas but refused to run. He practiced law in Galveston after the war and in 1869 went to Washington, D.C., to represent the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railway Company in a case pending before the United States Supreme Court. He became ill and went first to Tennessee and then to Georgia to recover. He died on April 30, 1870, while visiting his brother in Athens, Georgia.
You have not. You claimed eight instances were the words 'supreme court' may have been used but have not presentd quotes or context.
In all things? Or just in some things? And what about Senator Phelan, Senator Semmes, Senator Sparrow, Senators Oldham and Barnwell and Johnson? Were they all bitter foes of his, too, out to deny him the supreme court y'all claim Davis pined for?
Considered by who?
Speculation. No proof. Diversion.
Just like those who claim he worked for one. Speculation, zero proof, no evidence. So there we are.
More diversion. Here on a motion put forward in the Supreme Court debate on Jan. 27, 1863 were the recorded votes of the senators.
On motion by Mr. Yancey,The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are,
Messrs. Baker, Barnwell, Brown, Burnett, Clay, Dortch, Henry, Maxwell, Phelan, Wigfall, and Yancey.
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. Caperton, Davis, Haynes, Hill, Hunter, Johnson of Arkansas, Mitchel, Orr, Semmes, and Sparrow.
The foes of the Supreme Court carried this vote 11 to 10.
Um ... weren't the British our enemies in the past?
There's no "claim" or "may have been" about it. I have given you the specific location of at least eight different Davis speeches and letters that are explicitly indexed as being on the subject of the Confederat Supreme Court.
That fact in itself contradicts your oft-stated yet wholly gratuitous allegation that Davis abandoned the issue after paying it "lip service" in a single speech.
Agreed and likewise.
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